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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 31, 2019
Applicant:
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 67/63 (2022.01); H04L 67/1074 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01); H04L 67/61 (2022.01); H04L 67/568 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/63 (2022.05); H04L 67/1078 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/568 (2022.05); H04L 67/61 (2022.05);
Abstract
In a method of operating a content delivery network having a plurality of content caches to deliver requested content to at least one user device, the user device has one or more access network interfaces for connection to content caches of the content delivery network via one or more respective access networks, and the method is performed by a content delivery route decision function running on the user device and interfacing with the content delivery network and the access networks.